Improvement in grain-cradles



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Grain-BradleS.

Patented Dec. 30,1873.

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UNITED STA'IES PATENT OFFI@E DANIEL DUESLER, OF COLDWA'IER, MIOHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN GRAIN-CRADLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 145,933, dated December 30,1873; application fi1ed September 24, 1873.

T0 all whom it mag; concern Be its known that I, DANIEL DUESLER, of the cityof Coldwafcer, in the county of Brauch, in the State of Michigan, hzwe invented a new und useful Improvement in Gra-in Oradles; and I do hereby deelare that the following is a ful1 and exaet description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and t0 the 1etters of reference marked thereon.

My invention consist-s in an improved fastening for the fingers 0f grain-eradles, whereby each 0f the fingers may be adjusted or removed without disturbing the others, a-s hereinafter more fu11y described and explained.

T0 enable others skilled in the art t0 make und use my invention, I will describe its couupon this rod a-re screwed firmly against the clasps, thus holding the fingers in position; 0r

they may be used 130 shift the osition 0f th fingers, in eicher direction, along the rod. T110 braees fr0m the snath am attached to the fingers by being inserted in tl1e tube c, aa1d ret-ained by a rivet, the tube forming part of the' c1asp. Fig. B shows the position 0f the rod 011 the back 0f the fingers. Fig. D shows zu fallsized transverse section 0f a finger and elasp, as fastened With rod and serews. Fig. C rep resents a section of a full-sized finger, showing the rod on the back, and the position of the wedge e when the finger is fastened by that method. Fig. E shows atransverse seetion 0f finger and clasp as fastened With a wedge.

What I claim as my invention, and deslire t0 secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination 0f the clasps b with the adjusting-nut-s (l and screw-rod. a a, fastened t0 the blade, and extending across all 0f t-he fingers of the cradle, substantially as and for ehe purpose described.

DANIEL DUESLER.

Witnesses:

J ONAS H. M0G0WAN, WILLARD J. BOWEN. 

